You can't win every time. The movie poster for François Ozon's "Une Nouvelle Amie" (Mars Distribution) with Romain Duris and Anaïs Demoustier was supervised by Silenzio Communication but this time, I'm not the one who created it. The objective was complicated: should we show Romain Duris as a woman or keep the surprise by hiding the actor on the poster?

However, as always, François Ozon offers on blu-ray of his films, an extra dedicated to the posters projects. You can find mine below, available in this extra. And yet, there is not all!

My second poster for a François Ozon's movie has been created at Silenzio Communication, for "Jeune & Jolie" (Mars Distribution) starring Marine Vacth.

The video releases of the film keep the original artwork on front cover. As usual on François Ozon's blu-ray issues, an extra is dedicated to the art of the poster. We were two graphic designers who worked on this project. Here are my suggestions, that you'll find through the video extra.

My very first "real" movie poster has been made for Silenzio Communication, for the François Ozon's last film "In The House" (Mars Films) with Fabrice Luchini.The video edition of that movie shows the poster on front cover. Most unusual, extras include a section dedicated to poster projects. We were many graphic designers to work on this film, and a lot of projects have been created. Before finally choose mine, a request was to call out the audience involving it straight to the "Peeping Tom" relationship suggested by the film. In the video extras, you can watch a selection of those projects, including mine (below).

Monday, March 12, 2012

For one week, my art work is the subject of a huge spread on the web. Eulogistic feedbacks and comments I read everywhere go straight to my heart. Thank you everyone, I'm stunned. A picture escaped from my online portfolio turns around the world : the movie poster of WALT by Ron Howard, featuring Ryan Gosling. This poster is a part of a series announcing imaginary films. Indeed, WALT movie is no much more in pre-production than the others…

Unanimous, web users react: "what producers are waiting for to make this movies?" It's precisely with this envy of seeing amazing stories on big screen, that I created these posters (biopic mostly). From the graphic design to the title, through the tagline and the credits, they're in a way "ready to go" projects that haven't other goal to excite our imagination. At present.

For WALT, above, some pics that inspired me. Disney studios first created a toon character called "Oswald The Lucky Rabbit", very similar to the mouse we know. In a train, back to Los Angeles, Walt Disney would have the idea of rounded ears instead of long ones. Mickey Mouse was born.

For the cast, I first thought to David Arquette, then David Schwimmer. But I was unsatisfied by pictures I found. Thank God, I found that Ryan Gosling looked like Walt Disney (for this film, he should lose muscles!). Cherry on the cake, Ryan started his career on… Disney Channel.

In my mind, such a movie should be directed by a storyteller director, very epic, very novelistic. Ron Howard seemed the best choice. Michelle Williams could play the Disney's wife. Michelle and Ryan already played together in Blue Valentine. A little french touch, with the presence of Marion Cotillard, who could play with Ryan to evoke the Walt Disney's military service period in France, especially in Paris. Alan Menken score, of course, the genius of the animated long features of Disney reborn, and finally, a Walt Disney Pictures production, because I didn't see who else could tell this story!